URL redirection allows you to forward traffic from one website to another. In contrast to forwarding a domain name by parking it when the domain is practically unusable, a URL forwarding is possible only if the domain name is hosted, meaning that you'll still be able to set up completely functional subdomains and e-mail addresses or even to have content for the domain address in question, although it won't be accessible directly. If you currently have an Internet site, for example, but you'd like to launch one or many localized sites for different towns or countries, you shall be able to work on them without a difficulty. If a website visitor opens any one of the new domain names, however, they shall be forwarded to the existing Internet site. In this way, you won't miss potential clients while building the localized sites.

URL Redirector in Shared Hosting

When you host your sites with us and you have a shared hosting package, you will be able to use our URL redirection tool to forward the traffic from any domain and subdomain, or from a subfolder under any of them, to an alternative web address. The process takes a few basic steps via an intuitive interface, so you can create a redirection even when you don't have previous experience. You'll only have to pick a domain name or a subdomain through a drop-down list, to select the folder where the redirection shall be set up (the root folder or a subfolder), and then to input the URL to which the site visitors have to be forwarded to. For more advanced users, there are also options to select the redirection type (permanent or temporary) and the method (direct or match). Any forwarding you set up can be deactivated from the same section of the Control Panel, if you don't require it anymore.